2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Instructional Media Design is the 113th most popular major in the country with 7,710 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, instructional media design graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,602 and had an average of $31,700 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 668 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,557 and $39,409 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 instructional media design graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent instructional media design programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the instructional media design program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The instructional media school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region”.

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Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree instructional media students.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design in the Plains States Region

#1

Capella University

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$14,767 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$84,653 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capella University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region list. Capella University is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 38 doctorate’s instructional media degrees in 2019-2020.

Capella University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Instructional Media Design Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Capella University are $14,767, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Capella University

#2

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$25,948 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Instructional Media Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 doctorate’s instructional media degrees to qualified students.

Iowa State also made our “Best Instructional Media Design Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State University are $25,948, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Instructional Media Design at Iowa State

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Instructional Media Design

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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